corruption
Meaning of corruption
- The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity
- The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.
- The product of corruption; putrid matter.
- The decomposition of biological matter.
- The seeking of bribes.
- The destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental human action or by imperfections in storage or transmission media.
- The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct.
a corruption of style
- A debased or nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text, resulting from misunderstanding, transcription error, mishearing, etc.
- Something originally good or pure that has turned evil or impure; a perversion.
Information about corruption
- It is a name.
- The plural form of corruption is: corruptions.
- Languages in which corruption is used:
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Hyphenation of corruption
cor-rup-tion
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- corruption is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
corruption synonyms
Meaning corruptness:
Meaning putrescence:
putrescence, putridness, rottenness
Meaning degeneracy:
degeneracy, depravation, depravity, putrefaction
Meaning subversion:
Meaning :
destroying, ruining, spoiling, deterioration, worsening, adulteration, contamination, debasement, defilement, dirtying, soiling, tainting, bribery, impurity, wickedness, bastardization, erosion, decay, rot, decomposition, rotting, evil, sinfulness
Translation of corruption
- French: corruption, putréfaction, pourriture
- Spanish: corrupción, podredumbre, putrefacción, pudrimiento
- Italian: corruzione, decomposizione, putrefazione
- German: Korruption
- Portuguese: corrupção, putrefação
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